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Great Britain had been the hegemonic power of the nineteenth century, but its creditor status had been severely eroded by the cost of fighting World War I.
The German leader Otto von Bismarck confronted a similar dilemma when he presided over German unification in the nineteenth century.
For Europe’s creditor countries, like Bismarck in the nineteenth century, crises are an acceptable price to pay for a more stable future.
According to the political scientist Sarah Binder, the ideological divide between America’s two main political parties has not been as large as it is now since the end of the nineteenth century.
This situation is an injustice of vast proportions, reminiscent of – and arguably much worse than – the now-repudiated colonialism of the Western powers in the nineteenth century.
In the early nineteenth century, wages stagnated for almost 50 years before picking up again.
The latter part of the nineteenth century, despite its technological limitations, was an era of rising global trade.
In the nineteenth century, research at America’s government-supported universities provided the basis for the agricultural revolution.
During the Meiji restoration of the nineteenth century, Japan scoured the world for ideas and technologies that allowed it to defeat a European great power in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904.
The share of public spending in national income rose rapidly in today’s industrialized countries, from below 10% on average at the end of the nineteenth century to more than 20% just before World War II.
When, beginning in the nineteenth century, book publishing became not only a lucrative business, but also made books increasingly affordable to many more households, the sources of learning in society exploded.
The example they famously used was that of a Mozart string quartet, which requires the same number of musicians and instruments in modern times as it did in the nineteenth century.
Europeans have concerned themselves largely with introspection, ancient animosities, and sweet dreams of the nineteenth century, when they still ruled the world.
California, Wyoming, and other states allowed women to vote – an example that encouraged passage of the Nineteenth Amendment (enfranchising all adult women).
Indeed, most of the health gains over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were brought about by far-reaching economic, political, and social reforms.
The two current leaders in Korea must not repeat the mistake of their predecessors in the latter part of the nineteenth century.
It battled its way across North America in the nineteenth century and gained global dominance in the second half of the twentieth.
It is no longer seen only as a story of the capital-market-driven integration of the last two decades of the twentieth century, or even of an “early wave of globalization” in the nineteenth century, when the gold standard and the Atlantic telegram seemed to unite the world.
“History is a distillation of rumor,” wrote Thomas Carlyle in the nineteenth century.
East Asia’s regional powers operate almost without any multilateral framework, a state of affairs comparable to that of Europe toward the end of the nineteenth century.
Egypt is not a creation of nineteenth- or twentieth-century global power games.
But new laws passed in Britain in the first half of the nineteenth century – for example, the Offenses against the Person Act of 1828 – made gay sex and even gay relationships among men increasingly easy to prosecute.
Competing with HollywoodLONDON: Just over one hundred years ago, one of the nineteenth century's greatest novelists said: "It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it."
These efforts are based on theories which were developed in the nineteenth century as a result of the economic and social conflicts produced by industrialization.
The conflict with the market resulted from the unrestrained liberalism of the nineteenth century, best defined by the famous phrase "that freedom includes the right to sleep on the bridges."
Here there is an interesting difference between American or Anglo-Saxon thinking and European thinking, and that difference became apparent in the very last years of the nineteenth century.
Future historians may well be tempted to say of the South China Sea question what Lord Palmerston famously did of Schleswig-Holstein in the nineteenth century: “Only three people have ever understood it.
The debtors’ prisons of the nineteenth century were a failure – inhumane and not exactly helping to ensure repayment.
These talks eventually resulted in the formation of respected countries, from Italy in the nineteenth century, to India in the middle of the twentieth century, to Eritrea near that century’s end.
The new colonialists call to mind the settlers from Europe who spread across the world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, benefiting not just themselves, but also their homelands.
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